Plant Breeding for Food Security Sustainability and Industrial Growth

摘要

Hybridization was carried out between two species of pepper namely Capsicum annuum and Capsicum frutescens to raise F1 so as to assess the expression of heterosis or hybrid vigour for food security sustainability and industrial growth as shown in weights of fruits of the parental plants compared with the F1 hybrid. This was done by emasculating Capsicum annuum using it as female parent and transferring ripe pollen grains from Capsicum frutescens (the male parent) using artificial means instead of natural as shown by insect pollination. Result showed that the F1 fruits shown combined the characters of the parental plants and also added additional genetic attributes.